Sharing OER

There are a number of options when you are ready to share OER that you have adapted or created.

Merlot

OER Commons

  • In 2007, ISKME launched OER Commons, its digital public library and collaboration platform, informed by the organization’s pioneering efforts in knowledge management and educational innovation. OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners.
  • In order to submit content you need to create an account.
  • Submitting a resource is very simple with the completion of a brief form.

The Open Textbook Network

 

Featured below are two modules of information about creating and licensing your OER material. Click one of the topics below to expand the section.

Author

Resources for Authoring Open Textbooks

Authoring Open Textbooks by the Open Textbook Network

This guide is for faculty authors, librarians, project managers and others who are involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and K-12. Content includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools.

BC Open Texbook Authoring Guide

This is a comprehensive guide to authoring an open textbook including: structuring the textbook, getting started with and using Press Books, adding videos, copy editing, and licensing information.

Pressbooks

Penn State has an instance of Pressbooks provided by Unizin. If you would like an account please contact Sara Davis

Pressbooks Resources

Guide to Pressbooks

University of Wisconsin Pressbooks 101 Guide

Pressbooks Guide for Academic Publishing

Resources for the Creation of Open Educational Resources

OER Commons

An overview of the authoring tools provided by OER Commons

Open Author

This tool makes it easy to combine text, pictures, sounds, files, and video, and save them as openly licensed educational resources.

Module Builder

The Module Builder allows authors to create both student and instructor facing content views. Authors are encouraged to include overviews, pedagogical supporting text, and instructions for both students and other users of the resource. The Module can consist of sequenced tasks, which can incorporate a step-by-step approach to learning. Each task can have associated resources available for download.

Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development

80 online resources that you can use to learn how to build or participate in a collaborative educational effort that focuses on publication and development of OERs.

Open Educational Resources: OER Authoring Tools– provided by SUNY Empire State College

License

Creative Commons: About the Licenses

  • Creative Commons: Choose a License
  • Understanding Open Licensing when working with Open Educational Resources  -A Presentation by Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Education, Creative Commons
  • OPEN Attribution Builder- This application helps you easily cite open material you find. As you fill out the form, the app automatically generates the attribution for you.
  • About Open Attribution Builder

    This application is:

    • to help you easily cite open material you find; as you fill out the form the application will automatically generate the attribution for you.
    • to cite only openly distributed work, such as work licensed by Creative Commons or released in the public domain.
    • to provide a default attribution statement. You’re welcome to modify the citation to make it more suitable to your needs.

    This application is NOT:

    • to mark your own work with a Creative Commons license or to place your work in the public domain. To do so, please use the license chooser (for the CC licensed work) or CC0 Waiver (for the public domain work) provided by Creative Commons.
    • applicable for all types of materials; this application is only for openly released work.

    This application lets you enter information for title, author, license, organization, and project. You are not required to enter all information to have a citation generated. Click the ? icons to learn more about each area.

    If you have any questions about this application, please email us at wa-online@sbctc.edu.


    Published on Sep 16, 2015

     
    This presentation explains what open licensing is and why it’s so important to the OER movement.